According to him the novel is the best way to question the current world without answers. Therefore he is not undeserving of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

He was born on April 13, 1940, in Nice. He began his literary career, writing two books, “Un long Voyage” and “Oradi noir”. He was exposed to English as well as French.

Le Clezo’s first novel, Le procos-verbal (The Interrogation) received much attention in 1963. Le Clezo can be regarded a conjurer who tried to lift up language above everyday speech.

This debut novel includes the short story collection La Fievre in 1965 (Fever, 1966) and Le Deluge in 1966 (The Flood in 1967) in which he points out the fear and trouble reigning in the major Western Cities. He received a prize from the French Academy for his novel “Desert” in 1980.

During the same decade, he published “L’extase Materielle” a meditative essay collection. “Hai” in 1971, is a result of his long stay in Mexico and Central America between 1970 and 1974.He published “Voyage de l’autre cote” the same year he met his beloved wife Moroccan Jemia, in 1975. At the time he started translating the major works of Indian tradition such as “Les propheties du Chilam Balam” and “Le reve mexicain ou la pensee interrompue”.

Le Clezio has incorporated the world of his childhood and his own family into fiction. It began with “Onitsha” in 1991, which continued on to “La quarantaine” in 1995 and culminated in “Revolutions” in 2003 and “L’ Africain” in 2004.

Moreover, among what he wrote recently,” Ballaciner” in 2007 is significant, in which he related his attraction to the art of film. Several of his books are popular among children, such as the “Lullaby”, 1980 “Celui qui n’avait jamais vu la suivi”, “de La montagne du dieu vivant” in 1982 and “Balaabilou” in 1985. He has written many novels in German, Swedish and French as well as in English.

- Harshini

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